Razor-strop device



April 29 1924. 1,491,980

w. ii BRADLEY RAZOR STROP DEVICE Filed Feb. 16. 1923 CPI atented pr. 29, 124.

WILLIAM T. BRADLEY, OF LINN, MISSOURI.

RAZOR-STROP DEVICE.

Application filed February, 16,'1923.' Serial No. 619,429.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM T. BRADLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Linn, in the county of Osage, State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in RazonStrop Devices, of which the following is a specification containing a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part hereof.

My invention consists in the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter particularly described and distinctly claimed.

The object of my invention is to provide an improved razor-strop device, which will yieldingly hold in a separated position the upper or suspending ends of the stroppingmembers, in stropping a razor thereon; whereby the said stropping-members, when in such separated position, Wlll be more flexible than they would be, if one was in contact with the other, and the edge of the razor will more closely engage the soft and more flexible separated members of the razorstrop, and the stropping operation will thereby be greatly facilitated, in time and efficiency.

In the drawings,

Fig. 1 is a vertical section, taken on the line 11 of Fig. 2, and showing the upper or hanger-end of a double razor-strop having my invention in place thereon, and

Fig. 2 is an edge-elevation of the same.

The numeral 1 designates one of the stropping-members, and 2 the usual companion stropping-member; both of which are to be provided with the well-known handles (not shown) at their lower or free ends, and both of which are united at their hanger-ends by the inverted U-shaped hanger 3, clampingbolt or screw 4 and nut 5. The customary swiveling hook 6 (or some other swiveling suspending-device) is applied to the said hanger 3, for the purpose of permitting the strop-members to be turned over, to bring the desired member uppermost, in stropping a razor.

An Ashaped, or inverted Y-shaped yielding strop-separating device, preferably made of tempered flat steel, is inserted and held between said strop-members l and 2, at a point near their upper ends, to hold the same yieldingly separated at all times.

In the form of my invention herein shown,

the said A-shaped yielding strop-separating device has two flat integral angular spreading arms 7 and 8 which extend downwardly and outwardly at almost a right angle to each other, and a bead or rounded portion 9 is formed on the lower edge of each arm, to engage the strop-members without cutting or marring them during use. I

A vertical spring body 10 is formed by doubling the'flat spring material toward itself, so there are two members of said body extending parallel to each other, but preferably out of contact normally, except at their upper ends; and the upper edges of the said arms 7 and 8 are formed integral with (or attached to) the lower edges of said vertical body members; thereby permitting the latter, as well as the said arms, to approach and recede from each other during use of the device.

A hanger-ear 11 projects vertically from the upper end of said vertical body 10, and is provided with a vertical slot 12.

The said ear 11 is preferably formed, as shown in Fig. 1 by being stamped or cut from one of the said parallel members of said vertical body 10, and bent upwardly to the position which it thereafter occupies; which is, clamped between the upper parts of said stropping-members 1 and 2, by means of the said bolt or screw 4, which passes through said slot 12 of said ear.

The length of the stropping-surface of the said stropping members 1 and 2, may be made longer or shorter, as desired, by adjusting said slotted ear up or down; thereby causing the said strop-separating arms 7 and 8 toengage and separate the strop-members nearer. to or farther from the upper ends of the latter.

The numeral 14:, Fig. 1, designates the cut in the vertical body 10, from which the said slotted hanger-ear 11 has been removed, and bent upwardly, as previously described.

The operation and use of my invention will be readily understood, without further description.

I claim 1. A razor-strep composed of a plurality of stropping-members; an A-shaped spring at the hanger-end of said stropping-members, having integral parallel body-members and integral angular spreading-arms arranged to yieldingly separate the stroppingmembers a distance along their stroppingsurface; and a hanger and a swiveling device connected to thenpper ends of said parallel body-members. V 7

2 A 'mzonstrop device, composed of a plurality of stropping-membe 's; an A- shsped steel spring interposed between the upper portions of the stropping-members; a

slotted hanger-ear for suspending said steel spring in" position; a screw or bolt pass ing through said stropping-members and through the slot of said hanger-ear; and

rounded portions on the'lower edges of the parts of said steel spring which engage the said stropping members. f

In testimony whereof; I have signed my 15 name to thisspecifioation in presence of two subscribing Witnesses;

7 WILLIAM T. BRADLEY.

' Witnesses: I

' c 7 r A. J. MO ROE, W. O. REED. 

